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Western Cordillera Central Highlands Eastern Cordillera Subandean Zone

Coastal Belt Marañon fold-and-thrust belt Central Peru Northern Peru Subandean thrust belt Amazonas Foreland
West East

Pleistocene Ucayali
Timpia
Pliocene
Neogene Ipururo
Ipururo Ipururo
Miocene
Calipuy Calipuy Chambira
Calipuy Chambira Chambira Pozo
Pozo Pozo
Paleogene Yahuarango
Yahuarango Yahuarango
Casa-
Casapalca Casapalca Cachiyacu Cachiyacu
Late palca Chonta Vivian Chonta Vivian
Casma Pariatambo Jumasha Jumasha Jumasha Oriente Gr Oriente Gr
Cretaceous Chulec Sarayaquillo
Gr Pariahuanca Crisnejas
Farrat Pariahuanca Gr e

Early Mo
Carhuaz Goyllaris-
Goyllaris- Goyllarisquizga Pu
ca En
Santa quizga Gr
Cretaceous rro Chimú quizga Gr Gr
Pu S Pucará
en Gr olar Oyón Oyón Gr
te Chaucha itu r
P M G
Gr ied Gr Mitu Gr
Late .Jurassic ra qu
io
Pu cará a ca
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rc ap
Pu cará Ti
Ce
Middle Jurassic

Gr Mitu Gr Gr
Gr bo
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Ca
Mitu

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Early Jurassic r

bo
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Late Triassic Mit Ambo

Gr
Contaya
Early Triassic Excelsior r
G
Gr s
Permian r r Gr i lla
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Carboniferous Ex

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ab ane
Devonian

n G ,An
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Sa taya
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5 km
Silurian Conglomerates Sandstones Evaporites Phyllite
Ordovician
Volcanics Shale Crossbedded sandstones Marl

Limestones Mudstones Metamorphic sandstones Crystalline basement


Proterozoic
Unconformity Potential detachment level
Western Cordillera Central Highlands Eastern Cordillera Subandean Zone
Coastal Belt Marañon Fold-and-Thrust Belt
WSW RVQ Huaytapallana fault Otishi Cordillera ENE
Eocene volcanics Huancayo Pe
Nevado Apuhuasa
5
Cañete Amazonas Foreland 5
Ta
Permo-Triassic
0 Linga (97 Ma)
Tiabaya (80.5 Ma) Catahuasi (25 Ma) Tupe (Miocene) (270-238 M.a) 0
Incahuasi (82.5 Ma)

-5 -5

-10 -10
Arequipa massif
-15
[km]
[km]
25 km
Volcanics and volcaniclastics Intrusives Crystalline basement Paleozoic sediments Mesozoic sediments Foreland clastics
Paleogene-Neogene volcanics Paleogene-Neogene Neoproterozoic of South Permian Late Cretaceous Paleogene-Neogene (Pliocene)
American craton
Early Cretaceous volcaniclastics Cretaceous Carboniferous Early Cretaceous
Basement of Casma
Permian-Triassic Volcanic Arc Devonian Late Jurassic
Silurian-Ordovician Late Triassic- Early Jurassic
Western Cordillera Eastern Cordillera Subandean Zone

WSW
Coastal Belt Cordillera Negra Cordillera Blanca
Marañon Fold-and-Thrust Belt ENE
Amazonas Foreland
Huaraz
5 5
Huarmey Puscao
Cordillera Blanca Rio Huallaga
(62 Ma) (61Ma) (19-6 Ma)
0 Paccho
(95 Ma) Santa Rosa (91-75 Ma)
San Jeronimo Permo-Triassic 0
(270-238 M.a)

-5 -5

-10 Arequipa massif -10


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[km] [km]

25 km
Volcanics and volcaniclastics Intrusives Crystalline basement Paleozoic sediments Mesozoic sediments Foreland clastics
Neoproterozoic of South
Paleogene-Neogene volcanics Paleogene-Neogene Permian Late Cretaceous Paleogene-Neogene
American craton
Cretaceous Early Cretaceous
Early Cretaceous volcaniclastics Basement of Casma
Permian-Triassic Volcanic Arc Late Jurassic
Late Triassic- Early Jurassic
Northern Traverse

Western Cordillera Eastern Cordillera Subandean Zone


Coastal Belt (Tarma-LaMerced)

388 km (deformed)

120 km
64.7 km 172.5 km 148 km

81.8 km 253.3 km 172.7 km


Coastal Belt Western Cordillera Eastern Cordillera
Subandean Zone
0
(Tarma-LaMerced) 5
0
-5
K

-10 -10

508km (retro-deformed)

25 km

Southern Traverse
Western Cordillera Eastern Cordillera

Coastal Belt Central Highlands Subandean Zone


396.4 km (deformed)
0
150 km
63 km 201.4 km 132 km

88 km 282.6 km 174.3 km

Western Cordillera Eastern Cordillera Subandean Zone 0


Coastal Belt Central Highlands
5
0 0
-5
-10 -10

545 km (retro-deformed)
25 km

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